Thursday, September 17, 2009

Hurry Up Alfredo

The Chef: Sara

The Menu: A cashew-based alfredo sauce, which Sara served over pasta and tossed with broccoli. If you're looking for a more in-depth discussion of this dish—and the recipe for it—check out veganyumyum.com! Sara also made a delicious salad, featuring grated carrots, halved tomatoes, romaine, spinach, and Swiss chard.

The Goods: First, congratulations to Sara on her first turn in the VN kitchen! She made a fine chef, and we're looking forward to more of her meals. Next, hooray for liandxp, who won yesterday's copy of Vegan Yum Yum! Liandxp, send us an email, and we'll send your book right out. Finally, for today's copy tell us in the comments: Who's your favorite chef?

40 comments:

Britt Hawley, who is currently the chef at Golden Mean Vegan Cafe in Santa Monica, CA. She was the head chef at Real Food Daily for 6 years, and also catered my wedding! Her cooking is absolutely amazing.

I live in East Texas, where vegan chefs are few and far between. But that's okay, because it encouraged me to become my own favorite chef, which enabled me to go vegan and stick to it for the first time.

I know you asked for one, but I can't choose! So I'm submitting 2. First, Bryant Terry (author of Vegan Soul Kitchen) for his yummy African-American comfort food. And Colleen Patrick Goudreau (author of The Joy of Vegan Baking and The Vegan Table) ~ Her recipes are easy, accessible and delicious! I credit her for introducing me to my vegan lifestyle. Plus, both of these great cooks are local Bay Area peeps :)

At home, I'm usually the chef, and my gentleman friend is the best helper there is. But once in a while he decides that he wants me to sit and relax while he takes care of everything, and that definitely makes him my favorite chef!

My mum is my favourite chef! She always gets as excited about food as I do, and I've never met a chili that I like better than hers. She makes a damn good home-made loaf of vegan bread! And she even made my husband a big box of vegan doughnut holes (blueberry, cinnamon-brown sugar, and plain glazed) for his first birthday as a vegan. Needless to say, he was overjoyed and her doughnut holes were *amazing*!

um... most of the time, my favorite chef is myself! I like cooking, I like knowing just what's in my food, and how it was prepared. Plus, so often, when I eat out I end up thinking that I could have done a better job on my own. One place that's never true, though, is Millenium Restaurant. So, maybe whoever cooks there is really my favorite chef!

Even though he isn't a vegan chef I get many ideas reading Ferran Adria books so I have to go with him. His food is so unusual and complex. I am so fascinated by his use of deconstruction, foam/air and lecithin pearls.

My favorite new vegan chef is Amanda Cohen who is also the owner of Dirt Candy in NYC. She's worked at a lot of vegetarian/vegan restaurants & it shows, the food is great. It's the perfect place to go with friends who aren't vegetarians b/c they won't even realize there's no meat. I went there on a date without a non vegetarian & he loved it!

My runners up are the chefs at Cafe Blossom & Blossom Restaurant, although they took off a few of my favorite items. And I love the food at Real Food Daily in Santa Monica, CA.